FACES & PLACES
The descendents of Henry Dyke Winsor planted the first of two signs on the Winsor Trail on Oct. 6. Winsor had lived in the Pecos Wilderness and transported goods across the mountains to Santa Fe.
The first sign was placed at the Winsor Trailhead in the Pecos, and the second will be placed at Wilderness Gate near the Santa Fe ski area. The family worked with the National Forest Service and Margaret Alexander of Trails Alliance on the project.
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Director Della Warrior, a member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe, is the recipient of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums’ Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of her work.
Warrior received the award last week at the 2018 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries and Museums at the Mystic Lake Center in Prior Lake, Minn.
A news release on the honor says Warrior’s work has significantly contributed to the preservation and understanding of indigenous cultural heritage. Warrior has focused on helping to bring about positive change for Native people in educational arenas, tribal governments, Native history, arts and culture.
She received a graduate degree from Harvard University in 1971. She was appointed director of Indian education for Albuquerque Public Schools, where she served for eight years. She left that position to become her tribe’s first female chairwoman and CEO for the next four years, where she implemented a tribal law and court system, adult vocational training program, adolescent health and delinquency prevention programs, and numerous economic development projects building tribal revenues.
In 1993, Warrior began working with the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe as its director of development and served as the president of IAIA from 1998 to 2006.
In 2013, Warrior was appointed director of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.
She played a leadership role in developing the new exhibit Creating Traditions at Disney World’s Epcot Center in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, which opened to the public in July.